How do we Reconcile with our Past? Recent Czech and Czechoslovak History through the Prism of Collective Memory Theory and Qualitative Methodology Cover Image

Jak se vyrovnáváme s naší minulostí? České a československé nedávné dějiny prizmatem teorie kolektivní paměti a kvalitativní metodologie
How do we Reconcile with our Past? Recent Czech and Czechoslovak History through the Prism of Collective Memory Theory and Qualitative Methodology

Author(s): Marcel Tomášek, Jiří Šubrt
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociologický ústav - Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: collective memory; discourse and narratives; places of memory; cultures of remembering; focus groups

Summary/Abstract: How do we Reconcile with our Past? Recent Czech and Czechoslovak History through the Prism of Collective Memory Theory and Qualitative Methodology (focus groups). The article, as a combined theoretical-empirical undertaking, examines the ways collective memory is conceptualized in thematic areas of current theoretical thinking and how these theoretically designated and specified areas are reflected in the consciousness and memories of the common population. In particular it focuses on the popular memory and experience of history since the end of Second World War and the Communist takeover. In the first part, the long-term established theoretical approaches in view of collective memory research are presented. In the second, more empirically focused, part manifestations and expressions of these conceptualizations are registered in common acts and talk in the course of realized focus groups. Sociológia 2014, Vol 46 (No. 1: 88-115)

  • Issue Year: 46/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 88-115
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Czech